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 The Peninsula’s premier community-based center for yoga, movement classes, meditation and a variety of healing arts workshops
in San Mateo, CA.

For any questions please contact Penni at 650-573-9986 or penni@healingflowerenergies.com

~Prenatal~

Meditation for Pregnancy:

-Penni’s Prenatal Mommy Meditations CD

Five 14-20 minute guided meditations, $15.15

Available at CHANGE: 400 Ben Franklin Ct, San Mateo, 650-340-9642 or online

as download or CD http://www.yoga-software.com/ProductDetails.asp?

ProductCode=400-DL

Prenatal Classes:

*All Hospitals offer birthing classes

*CHANGE

CHANGE: 400 Ben Franklin Ct, San Mateo 650-340-9642

-Pregnant Couples Prepare for Labor (2.5 hours) every other month

-Prepare for Labor with Hypnosis (1 hour) every other month

-Meet the Doulas: generally every 4th Friday 7:30-9pm

-Prenatal Yoga Classes: Tuesday 10:30am – 12noon, Sunday 5-6:30pm

-Calm Birth quarterly

*Blossom Birth Services www.blossombirth.com offers a variety of classes in Palo Alto

650-964-7380

*Hypnobirthing:

Kristin Nemzer, LMFT, CH, SF Classes: 415-902-0550 www.hypnobirthingsf.com

Books for Pregnancy:

-Birthing From Within (classes in this available at Blossom Birth)

-Natural Pregnancy Book by Aviva Jill Romm

-Happiest Baby on the Block

Books especially for Dad…recommended by students:

-Hit the Ground Crawling

-Be Prepared: A guide for new dads (a humor book, but also practical)

-The Birth Partner by Penni Simkin

Rental of Homeopathic Childbirth Kit…all 200 C

Available at CHANGE: 400 Ben Franklin Ct, San Mateo, 650-340-9642

Helpful Websites:

www.Hpakids.org

www.Cure-Guide.com

Specifically about vaccine issues: www.909shot.com/

www.barbarageraghty.co.uk/articles2.html

www.abchomeopathy.com

Resources by Pregnancy Timeline:

Experiment…see what helps you-all of these have been tried by past students, some

find it helpful, some not…we are all a little different.

Throughout pregnancy…tea to nourish the soul and give some support

Combinations by Traditional Medicinals or Yogi Tea

Red Raspberry leaf tea: (to strengthen the uterus) weak at first and as you get into 3rd

trimester make it darker and darker

For electrolyte balancing: symptoms can be leg cramps, severe vomiting, generally

yuk and sense of never enough water or endless urination

drink Recharge, Smart Water or your own blend (recipe from Natural Pregnancy by

Aviva Jill Romm and a NY emergency room physician)….1 quart of water, juice of one

lemon, 1-2 T of honey, . t of salt, 1/4 t of baking soda…sip through out the day.

Alfalfa tea: late pregnancy esp for Vitamin K

Nettle Tea: provides some iron, increases milk production, decrease hemorrhoids

Both in birth or in beginning breastfeeding we can have feelings that surprise us.

These remedies can be found in most health food stores...they are part of the original

38 from Edward Bach (dated around 1930). To use in pregnancy or breastfeeding or

giving to little ones use 2 drops in a glass or bottle of water.

For a consultation, which includes many more possibilities, contact

Penni Thorpe 573-9986 or contact Patricia Meyer 348-7697

For edema: Parsley tea /hot and cold alternating in shower or in buckets (for hands and

feet)

For nausea: 250 mg of ginger capsules, or candied ginger or try peppermint if you don’t

have heartburn

For heartburn: raw almonds, slippery elm lozenges or 2oz of aloe vera juice after

meals from Trader Joes, cell salt Nat Phos 6x 2 tabs before meal and 2 after.

For hormone balancing: rose hydrosol (available at Change) …you can get a great

quality that is organic from Catherine at www.Adriaflor.com (Moss Beach) 728-5201

Help with calcium/magnesium which may influence tiredness & charley horses. cell

salt Mag Phos 6X 2 tabs 3 times a day

Thorne makes a cal-mag citrate that you take before bed

Some have found help with Rainbow’s CalMag with enzymes for nausea

By end of second trimester you should have finished interviewing and choosing your

pediatrician.

Around 35 weeks: perineal massage with perineal massage oil (3-5 drops lavender

essential oil in 2 oz sweet almond oil)

Read “let your monkey do it”: http://www.missoulanews.com/News/News.asp?no=5083

37 weeks: 2 drops of 5 flower/rescue remedy in water bottle daily to calm

Teas: Strengthen your red raspberry leaf and feel free to add chamomile, alfalfa or

nettles (if you are taking floradix you are already getting your alfalfa and nettles).

Chamomile will help with any anxiety and at this point you can drink as much as you

would like. Lemon balm is also a good choice.

Spend time every day, ideally before a nap or bedtime, visualizing your ideal birth with

as much detail as possible.

Spend time every day sending your message of love and trust to your baby and then to

your self...

Flower Remedies:

Generally 5 flower/rescue remedy (available at Change) is good for feeling out of sorts

and great from 37 weeks on to prepare for the change in your body and life

For fear in general: aspen (this includes fear children have of going to sleep)

For fear of the known: mimulus

For fear for someone else: red chestnut

38 weeks for 1st birth: . teaspoon whole cloves in 1 c. boiling water, step 15 minutes

Set up your support and supplies for after the birth…contact the nursing mother’s

counsel or go to their free class to make the connection while you can have an

uninterrupted conversation.

Borrow the homeopathic kit from CHANGE if you plan on using it

When you are really ready to give birth you can try taking 2 capsules per day of 500

mg evening primrose oil.

In labor: As labor begins try to pretend that it is not happening as long as you can and

follow a normal routine of eating, drinking and napping. Once it progresses you will be

at a place where you know you need to start focusing on it.

Lavender or rose hydrosol for cool compress

Recharge, smart water with electrolytes, miso soup for hydration and electrolytes...sip

or ice chips or popsicles with yogurt in them for protein.

As you are about to push take 200C Arnica...you take 2 pellets right as you have the

urge to push and then 2 pellets right after the baby is born.

Then if you want, use Arnica 30C (a lower dilution) it if you feel bruised for the next 3

days you take only 2 pellets when you feel bruised...I would take maximum of 3 doses.

Focus on 3rd eye

Pushing: Focus on using universal healing energy to help you push baby out. Keep

buttocks and pelvic floor soft

About drinking alcohol…from Prevention Magazine

You’re pregnant and you want a drink. It may be a glass of Bordeaux with dinner or a

mug of hot buttered rum at a jolly holiday party. Didn’t your doctor say a drink or two

once in a while couldn’t hurt? Reconsider those reassuring words. Researchers are

discovering that having less than a drink a day at any point during your pregnancy can

cause brain damage and affect your baby’s development. Alcohol passes directly

through your placenta to your baby, where it can severely affect growth and impair

learning, memory, attention span, and social behavior. Alcohol is also one of the most

common known causes of mental retardation. The damaging evidence: Mild intellectual

and behavioral problems were seen in 14-year-olds whose mothers had regularly

consumed alcohol in any amount, reports a Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

study of 763 babies whose moms were asked about their alcohol consumption at each

trimester. The Pittsburgh-based researchers found that women who drank the most

gave birth to the smallest babies. Research has also shown that downing several

highballs in one night appears to be more harmful than having the same number of

drinks over several days. But Western Psychiatric’s study also showed that even small

amounts of alcohol could affect a child’s growth and development-right into

adolescence. Genetic differences can determine how a fetus responds to alcohol,

meaning it affects some developing babies more than others, says James R. West, Ph,

head of anatomy and neurobiology at Texas A& M University. Plus, few people measure

drinks precisely, so one big cocktail could contain the alcohol equivalent of three. “We

don’t know where the danger level is,” says West. There’s no safe time to drink during

pregnancy, either. Alcohol can cause brain damage in all three trimesters, not just the

first, as some people believe. If you’re planning to get pregnant, cut out alcohol now. If

you are pregnant and have already indulged, stop. The only truly safe drinking during

pregnancy is none.

Help with Sleeping

-Remember Texas Twist, swinging arms for 100 -100 times before bed, chamomile tea

(only 1 cup if prone to miscarriage), start sleeping on right side to make left nostril on

top and get you sleepy, then roll to left after 20 minutes.

If monkey mind is busy try flower remedy of white chestnut (2 drops in a bottle of water

and sip) or do nadi suddhi (alternate nostril breath) for 5 or 10 minutes lying down or

sitting up. Send yourself messages of love and trust.